I arrived at it from the body count, from the last 12 months, from a list of names that keeps getting longer and longer while the people in charge go on Fox News and tell the critics that they should shut their mouths.
Well, why now? Because on July 14th, a tourist died in St.
Augustine and it barely made the national news.
That's the part that should stop you cold.
A man dying.
while running from federal agents at a gas station before dawn is now so damned routine that it doesn't clear the noise floor.
That's not because people don't care.
I know people care.
I care.
You care.
That's why you're here.
Because the volume... has made the individual deaths indistinguishable from the background radiation, the toxic sludge, of this whole operation.
Juan was, by the count reporters were keeping, at least the tenth fatality connected to immigration sweeps since this campaign started.
And I say at least because ICE has demonstrated, documented in the record, that it will hide its own killings for the better part of a year if you let it.
So 10 is a floor, not a ceiling.
So we're going to do two things.
I arrived at it from the body count, from the last 12 months, from a list of names that keeps getting longer and longer while the people in charge go on Fox News and tell the critics that they should shut their mouths.
Well, why now? Because on July 14th, a tourist died in St.
Augustine and it barely made the national news.
That's the part that should stop you cold.
A man dying.
while running from federal agents at a gas station before dawn is now so damned routine that it doesn't clear the noise floor.
That's not because people don't care.
I know people care.
I care.
You care.
That's why you're here.
Because the volume... has made the individual deaths indistinguishable from the background radiation, the toxic sludge, of this whole operation.
Juan was, by the count reporters were keeping, at least the tenth fatality connected to immigration sweeps since this campaign started.
And I say at least because ICE has demonstrated, documented in the record, that it will hide its own killings for the better part of a year if you let it.
So 10 is a floor, not a ceiling.
So we're going to do two things.
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